Today we face a climate of ever increasing misdirection by popular media. This site, along with others, aims to reveal the reality of America and the loss of fact inherent to the over riding theme of our current political and social confusion: Purposeful deception.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Targeting Planned Parenthood Has Little To Do With Abortion

If you missed the show,
you can listen to our discussion on this topic and more, including disease as big business and the pink P.R. mess Komen made
with their Planned Parenthood announcement. The dangers of privatizing prisons,
schools, and healthcare are also examined. Listen to the show HERE and be sure to tune in weekly to Breaking Taboo, 7:00 PM EST on Newdissidentradio.com

For the past several years,
vitriol from the religious right and their followers concerning abortion has
been filling the airwaves from radio to political cable opinion shows. The
debate surrounding the issue has metastasized into a grudge match between
pro-choice advocates and pro-lifers and has been met by a propaganda machine
trying to demonize government funded programs. The pro-life contingency
has taken this fight to combat charitable services in order to push an agenda
that robs those who need medical care of the ability to afford such.
Following the patterns of education and prison privatization, the attempt to
defund Planned Parenthood and label it an immoral abortion clinic is a
transparent effort to convince Americans to ignore our obligation to assist
those left helpless in the aftermath of the profiteering machine.

Originally slated as “a
charitable organization committed to providing comprehensive, age-appropriate
and medically accurate sexuality education” the attacks against Planned
Parenthood have been based on the premise that the organization provides
abortions as its principle purpose despite evidence to the contrary. Those
involved in this debate have said the fight is a matter of protecting life vs a
women’s right to choose but the issue seems to be more about eliminating
governmental oversight and turning our health care system into a for-profit
venture instead of supporting those social services provided for Americans
unable to pay for corporate controlled health care.

Permeating the Presidential
campaign trail as a hot button item, all of the republican candidates have
denounced abortion on a pro-life, "Christian" platform. As an
example, Rick Santorum stated that abortion is “an inhumanity that should not
occur in this country"; that "[Tax dollars] should not be used for
things that are morally objectionable.” This same candidate however, as well as
the rest of the field with the exception of Ron Paul, continues to fully
support the inhumanity of our War effort in the Middle East which is
responsible for hundreds of thousands of innocents being killed for the sake of
National Security. Their vehement, pro-life stance apparently does not extend
any further than the borders of this nation.

When put into perspective,
the pro-life approach combined with the continued support of public school and
prison privatization is really only about creating a system that puts every
aspect of America's
social and governmental system into the hands of corporations for the sake of
profit. From charter schools to the recent private prison initiatives
pushed through the Florida Senate, the continued propaganda to privatize
government has shown no bounds. Many label this agenda as pro-life or
anti-union and claim the elimination of these programs will help balance
budgets across America but it is not hard to see what it is really about:
profiteering. Capitalism is not a bad thing, per se but when profit takes
precedent over people where only the few benefit, one must reassess the
principles of a nation whose leaders would leave so many without assistance
only to profit from the misery of those left behind, unrepresented.

FAIR USE NOTICE:

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, and so on. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

Contact information

If you have an original article that contributes to the theme of this blog, please send to

This blog is for educational value only and neither represents nor advocates social or political dissension lest it be in a peaceful, intelligent manner through the legal rights granted to us by the U.S. Constitution.